THE DROUGHT.
PRAYERS FOR RAIN.
By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. BRISBANE, April 17. To-day was observed as a day of special prayer for rain. The services in all the churches were largely attended.
Telegrams from Adelaide muicate a terrible condition of affairs in Central Australia owing to the severity of the drought. It is reported Diat for hun-. dreds of miles around the Barrow telegraph station there is a complete absence of water and fauna. Aboriginals have been unable to find means of subsistence, and are dying from starvation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 18 April 1902, Page 2
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